Freud’s Concept of Repression and Defense, Its Theoretical and Observational Language

Freud’s Concept of Repression and Defense was first published in 1961.Freud’s concept of repression and defense (he used the terms almost interchangeably) is central to the whole theory of psychoanalysis, yet his use of the terms has never been clearly or fully understood by psychologists or psychoanalysts. Nowhere in his writing does he state the meaning precisely and unequivocally. To clarify the concept, Professor Madison, a psychologist, examines the whole body of Freud’s writing with refere